After dawn, the "Crown of Late Autumn" conference finally opened.
The opening ceremony of this grand event was not like the 'Olympic Games' in Roddy's impression, requiring everyone to show up and walk around. What Rahiman did was to gather representatives from various countries in the high-level conference hall of the Colummir Magic Tower, sign the agreement with the congressmen and take an oath, and then it will be over.
The concise ceremony didn't take ten minutes at all. Including Speaker Jeremy's speech, it took a total of half an hour to complete. Then everyone dispersed. Rody admired the simple and efficient style of the mages very much, and after the ceremony, he ran to the emissary of Iscar Kingdom as soon as possible, and invited Doris to watch the game together with a "gentleman" expression on his face—but People from other countries were present at this time, and Doris was afraid of affecting Iscar's impression of the parliament, so she declined in the end.
Rody was full of regrets about this, but he felt relieved in his heart. He took Akasha and Melinsera to watch Naifei's preliminaries in the "Construct Puppet" project.
There is no broadcast or live broadcast in this era. If you want to watch the game, you can only go to the scene. And because of the variety of competitions, the six large arenas in Duriel City are holding various competitions at the same time. According to the competition schedule, the first ones started were some events that the Rahiman Kingdom was not good at—especially equestrian, horseback riding, and wrestling.
After all, the "Twilight Autumn Championship" is held for all participating countries, and Rahiman can't arrange all the first places due to emotion and reason. These deliberately set up "not good at projects" are naturally to save some face for those small countries. But for "Bindu Country", these projects are the ones they have to secure the first place in almost every session.
The country of Bindu is a grassland nomadic country far away from Laximan, and the king is also called "Khan"—yes, the one that Erwin stuffed into the wine barrel because of provoking Merlinsera a few days ago The "son of the Khan" is the crown prince of this country.
As a nation on horseback, the people of Bindu Kingdom still have some primitive style in their behavior, which can be summed up as "worship of the strong". From top to bottom, this country only worships the strong, even the royal family, not blood. If the king's strength is not recognized, then there is no need to think about ascending the throne.
In such an environment, Khan's son Duke can secure the position of crown prince. In terms of various abilities, he can naturally be regarded as the best in the kingdom.
He rode horses at the age of three, learned archery at the age of five, and studied with domestic powerhouses for fifteen years. Since the age of twenty, he has participated in four wars. Even without the title of "Son of Khan", Duke is still the most popular "son of Khan" in the Bindu Kingdom. "Eagle Knight" - this is a unique title for a young knight with great abilities and superb combat skills. If he does not fall, he will surely become the pillar of the country in the future.
However, this ever-confident "Eagle Knight" has a bad complexion at this time. He is trying his best to fit together with the horse under his crotch, and he is sprinting forward frantically. In the corner of his eyes, two figures, one left and one Right beside him, is running towards the finish line at almost the same speed...
There are five distance events in the "riding" competition. At this time, Duke is participating in the most entertaining 3,000-meter short-distance race. In the last competition, he won the championship with a huge advantage of more than 50 meters ahead of the second place, but he never thought that he would be forced to use his full strength in the qualifiers now!
Although the final result was that he won the first place in the qualifiers with a slight advantage, what made him feel gloomy was... the difference between the second and third places was less than one meter away from him.
The result of the game with the proofreading by the law circle will not be questioned. Duke can only wonder if he is really in a bad state. But after looking at the timing, he found that this result was even faster than the final results of previous years...
The only explanation is that the strength of these two strange knights is comparable to his.
Pulling his sweaty mount towards the rest area, Duke couldn't hold back the throbbing in his heart. He turned his head and said to the subordinates who followed him, "Go and find out who those two people are from, why have you never seen them before?"
It was easy to find the answer to such a question—in just a few minutes, he learned that the two knights were from the "Kingdom of Karen".
"How could it be here..."
Mentioning this name sent a chill down his spine. Because after being "educated" by Erwin that day, he naturally asked people to investigate the origins of Merlinsera and his party, and the result he got was the uncommon name "Karen Kingdom"... thinking of protecting himself as the "National Teacher" " was easily forced back by that mage, he already understood that this country might not be a good friend.
"I've never heard of this country before... How come there are so many powerful characters suddenly?"
Thinking about such a question, he stepped forward to watch the "wrestling" qualifiers of his subordinates in the arena of Capitalsmore College-this is also a must-take event for Bindu every time, but before he walked out of the racetrack, he saw Seven or eight subordinates just came back together...
An ominous premonition suddenly rose in Duke's heart, and he called to the strongest burly man among them: "Maqila! Why are you back here?"
Ma Qila was the previous wrestling champion, with a height of 1.9 meters, he was like an iron tower among Rahiman's average 1.6 meters crowd. But at this time, he was full of helplessness, and he knelt down on one knee when he saw Duke—"Maqila is incompetent...was eliminated in the qualifiers."
"What?! Who did it?"
Duke didn't believe anyone could beat Makilla in wrestling. This warrior is the most powerful wrestler in the kingdom. His skills, strength, and explosiveness are all top-notch. He is not facing a mage in a wrestling match. Is there anyone stronger
"Little Khan...is the bodyguard next to that woman in Karen Kingdom."
The subordinate who knew the inside story immediately gave an explanation, so that Duke couldn't even utter the words of reprimand—Irwin's figure of more than two meters and the unstoppable strange power were all experienced by him. Now that he thinks about it, I'm afraid that only this kind of guy can defeat Ma Qila.
However, Duke was a little unwilling to give up. He wanted to understand how big the gap between the Bindu Kingdom and the Karen Kingdom was in this regard, so he asked:
"How many rounds did you fight him?"
This sentence made Ma Qila bow her head in shame: "Little Khan, I was thrown out as soon as I met..."
Duke didn't catch his breath and almost choked on his saliva. He stood on the street for a long time, not knowing what to say for a while—but before the people from the Bindu Kingdom moved away, a team of mages in blue robes came to the street.
"The roads of the Durrell Ring Rally are being cleared, and those who are not involved, please give way."
Rahiman's "Twilight Autumn Crown Tournament Organizing Committee" executive team planned the course of the competition. No matter how high the status of Duke and others were, they had to avoid it, so they could only divert to the alley.
"Little Khan, then our next game..."
"Continue! Grit your teeth and continue to compete!"
Having said that, thinking of the two cold-faced Karen Kingdom knights who sandwiched him in the middle today, he couldn't help but feel a little cold in his heart—what is the "Karen Kingdom" that popped up all of a sudden? A strength? The rider is not weak, the hand-to-hand combat is strong, and the magician does not seem to be a small role...
That encounter was regarded as a shame by him. These days, Duke has almost been thinking about how to take revenge, but now it seems... this hope has become more and more elusive.
*****
"The third group match, Karen Kingdom, Naifei, against... Laximan, Mofeng College, and Catrange!"
The qualifiers were single-eliminated. In order to save time, more than eight matches were played simultaneously in one arena. The "Constructing Puppet Fighting" competition is divided into six levels. The type III puppet that Naifei assembled can only participate in the "low-level group" with the lowest level because it is limited to four middle-level magic crystals. It is a "mass-produced" construction puppet bought on the street, but in the competition, it does not face a strong opponent from the "Puppet Academy" at all.
Because she can see the flow of elements, Nefi's optimization in assembling the puppets has already given her Type III a smoother movement and a more agile action speed. And the most important thing is that she didn't use the traditional magic crystal as the driving energy.
The use of four standard "charged crystals" made the Type III surpass the current era of Rahiman's puppet technology.
"Little girl from Karen Kingdom, although the Model III you bought on the street is an optimized version, it is really not suitable for competition!"
Although Caitrange participated in the lowest level group match, she has quite a few fans in Mofeng College. In the auditorium outside the arena, there were thirty or forty students who chanted her name to cheer for her. It seemed that they should be influential figures in the lower grades.
Naifei just smiled sweetly at this kind of seemingly pleasant words: "I'll know after trying—"
"Battle, start!"
Kate Lanqi drove her two-meter-long "crusher" forward, intending to directly use the size advantage to smash Nefei's Type III into pieces, but before her puppet took the third step, the Type III puppet in front of her Already running and rushing over...
"Boom!"
The "Crusher" looked like a slow, stupid big man in front of the Type III puppet. He didn't even have time to make a parrying posture, but he was smashed by the seemingly inconspicuous punch. If the punch was on the chest, it might not even be able to break the defense, but here, the upper body of the "crusher" was directly folded forward.
Just when Kaitrange was panicking to save the scene, Naifei flicked her finger lightly on the control panel, and Type III's left claw precisely caught the magic crystal hidden on the back neck of "Crusher", casually Pulling out, the huge body lost its power, and fell to the ground with a "clang" sound...
The "rear support group" that was about to cheer was like a duck being strangled by the neck, and each of them stared dumbfounded at the "crusher" turning into a puddle of mud. And Naifei still had a sweet smile, and waved: "Thank you, big sister!"
"Karen Kingdom, Nefe, win!"